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The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has on several occasions said that there is a need for the President to sign the Electoral Bill as this will help the electoral body prepare properly ahead of the 2023 general elections. However, President Buhari is yet to assent to the bill despite the corrections that have been made to it by the National Assembly, which had previously included compulsory direct primaries in electing leaders.

The President had asked that the clause be changed and options be given, which is why the National Assembly and House of Representatives agreed to have direct and indirect primaries and also included consensus.

Many Nigerians and political leaders have also expressed displeasure over the President’ s nonchalant attitude towards the bill, adding that the President has no reason to delay the signature. Some stakeholders also said that the President might again refuse to sign the bill for the sixth time.
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An End To Anxiety As President Buhari Prepares To Sign The Electoral Bill

As a result of the President’ s slow response to the bill that has been forwarded to him since January 31st, a coalition of civil society organisations threatened to embark on a protest on Tuesday, which it did, and also gave the President an ultimatum on when to sign the bill, but the presidency asked that the CSO’ s cancel any other protest, which they promised that the bill would be signed on Friday. This was revealed to newsmen on Wednesday by an authoritative source in the presidency.

When the National Assembly sent the bill to the President last November, President Buhari gave his reasons for not signing it as the overwhelming cost of conducting direct primaries and security challenges. However, since the day the amended bill was sent back to the President, which is about 24 days ago, nothing has been heard from the President concerning the bill. However, the constitution gives him the grace of 30 days, whereby he is expected to either assent to the bill or withhold his assent, giving reasons for his decision.

According to Punch News, the Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, assured Nigerians that in a matter of hours, the electoral bill would be signed. The media aide conveyed this information during a feature on Channels Television’ s ” Sunrise Daily” programme on Tuesday. He was quoted to have said, ” It could be signed today; it could be signed tomorrow in a matter of hours, not days. Hours could be 24 hours. It could be 48 hours, but not days and not weeks.

Based on reports made available to Punch News on Wednesday by a source close to the office of the President, all arrangements have been finalised for the President to sign the bill into law on Friday, and this will put all the anxieties to rest.

CSO To Take Next Action After Friday

The coalition of 26 civil society organisations that staged a protest in Abuja on Tuesday, February 22nd, has however, refused to speak on the latest report that the President would sign the Electoral Amendment Bill on Friday. The group says it would only speak after it is convinced that the President would indeed assent to the bill. The coalition that declared February 22nd a national day of protest stated that the protest was to demand immediate assent to the amended bill by the President.

Punch News reports that, in reaction to Femi Adesina’ s words on the TV program, the Executive Director of Yiaga Africa, Samson Itodo, said, ” Let’ s wait and see. ” Je added that, since the news says that Buhari would assent to the bill on Friday, the coalition will wait to see if it is indeed true, but for now, there is no comment.

Another Bill Will Be Passed Secretly For Buhari— Galadima

Meanwhile, a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Buba Galadima, has expressed his distrust over the much- awaited assent to the amended bill. He noted that President Buhari’ s assent to the bill won’ t change a thing if he signs it with a reservation and not totally.

Galadima, a former National Secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change, during a feature on Channels Television’ s ” Politics Today” programme on Wednesday, stressed that signing the bill with reservations means he has not signed the electoral bill at all.

According to Punch News, Galadima stated that, it is suprising that President Buhari was contemplating making changes to the views of Nigerians which was presented by their representatives in the national assembly. He went on to say that if the media and civil society organisations had not pressured him, Buhari was not planning to sign the bill.

Galadima was quoted to have said, ” They are doing a kind of 419; he will sign the bill and send a list of things he doesn’ t like, which will secretly be passed for him. ” There will be no change, even if he signs, because what he gives us with the right hand, he will take from us with the left. ” He added that the President would make it look like he had signed the amended 2010 Electoral Act Bill, when in fact, he had taken the gains the people had made into the bill.



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Worse yet, the man has moved in with and married another woman he met only a year ago.

On Twitter, the lady stated that she had mistakenly believed he had a good future with the gentleman.

“I am truly broken,” she says. My boyfriend met someone last year and married her back in Kzn, which I found out.

I was thinking to myself that we were building a future together while he was building a future with someone else. I’m too embarrassed to even share the rest of his thorough explanation.

I wish I could post screenshots of this predicament, but I already feel stupid.

When others on social media began inquiring what she did to deserve his decision, Thembs, who goes by the handle @uThembs_, responded:

“Let’s just pretend I was impolite, okay?” Is it respectful to do all of this without discussing it with your partner? Or does respect just apply when a man is receiving it?”

I AM REALLY BROKEN.I FOUND OUT THAT MY BOYFRIEND MET SOMEONE LAST YEAR AND MADE HER A WIFE BACK AT HIS HOME IN KZN. THERE I WAS THINKING WE BUILDING A FUTURE TOGETHER WHILE HE WAS BUILDING A FUTURE WITH SOMEONE ELSE.


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PDP member killed during party's congress in Osun/Illustration. [SaharaReporters]

The command’s Spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola, said that the victim, a member of PDP participating in the congress in Iwo, was attacked by members of a rival group within the party.

Opalola said that the incident happened at Oke-Oba, Aperire Village, Ward 14 in Iwo.

According to her, it was reported that the suspected thugs were conveyed in two mini-buses to attack voters at the ward.

Opalola said the suspected assailants attacked the voters with broken bottles and sticks.

She said that in the process, two party members that sustained various degrees of injuries were taken to the hospital, where one of them later died.

The spokesperson said that police had, however, arrested three of the suspects, including their leader, while the weapons they used in perpetrating the attack were recovered from them.

Opalola said that police were on the trail of other suspects that took part in the attack, adding that they would be prosecuted accordingly, when arrested.

Similarly, Emmanuel Ocheja, the Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Osun, assured residents of the state of adequate security of lives and property.

Ocheja, in statement through the command’s Spokesperson, Atanda Olabisi, said the corps, in synergy with other sister agencies, were on top of the situation.

He enjoined the citizens to go about their lawful businesses and report any suspicious movements to security authorities.


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The Federal Government says it has increased its National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of N70 per day school feeding of a child in public primary school to N100.

Dr Umar Bindir, the National Coordinator, National Social Investments Programme (NSIP), said this at a two-day National Consultative meeting on public food procurement in the context of Nigeria’s National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme on Wednesday in Abuja.

According to Bindir, the programme is under the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.

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“When we started in 2016 before COVID-19, we experienced with difficulty to implement the N70 per child.

“We have made presentation to the honourable minister, who passionately made submission to the president and Mr President has graciously approved that we should raise the feeding from N70 to N100 per a child.

“And the Minister of Finance is giving a very good cooperation to ensure that this actually is implemented on time, “ he said.

Bindir used the occasion to advise the team from all the states of the federation to key into the presidential gesture and the cabinet commitment to ensure that the initiative was a sustainable one.

“We also hope that the state government through the governors and their cabinets will also realised the importance of this programme meant to tackle poverty. “

According to him, the programme is not just about feeding the children but engaging women to become entrepreneur and good food providers.

“It is also about enhancing the value, the commercial and entrepreneur value of our small scale farmers.

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“So we hope that this presidential gesture will be understood by not us but also by the states so that we can strengthen the programme, “ he explained.

He explained further that the consultative meeting was aimed at putting together the implementing team of the NHGSFP in the country to discuss issues that had to do with food and feeding procurement.

“The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme of Nigeria is recognised now globally as one of the most an ambitious programme of feeding our children in public schools.

“So the intention of this consultative programme is first to drive home the partnership works and to also establish that Nigeria is doing the right things.

“As well as to ensure that we enhance our implementation procedures so that we can go higher and become better,’’ he said.

In his contribution, Dr Emmanuel Agogo, the Country Representative, Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL), said that it was not the cost of the food that made it quality but the content of the food.

Agogo said that a nutritious food must be balanced, less salt and saturated fat.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is a government-led school feeding programme that aims to improve the health and educational outcomes of public primary school pupils.(NAN)


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Enugu State Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi cast his vote at his polling at Amube Orba ward, unit 002, in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State at about 11:57 am on Wednesday.

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The governor walked to his polling unit, which is a stone’s throw from his private residence located along Enugu-Makurdi road.

The governor did not speak to newsmen after he cast his vote.

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